Nisha Viswanathan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1375482 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nisha Viswanathan |
| NOMBRES | Nisha |
| APELLIDO | Viswanathan |
| FIRMA | VISWANATHAN N |
| AFILIACIONES | National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-0592-4894 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Chronopolitics of Slow Violence
Decoding Dress
This article proposes androgyny not merely as an aesthetic category but as a critical-analytical framework for interrogating the structural, historical, and political dimensions of gendered fashion in contemporary India. By situating androgynous sartorial practices within precolonial draping traditions, colonial interventions in dress codes, and post-liberalization fashion economies, it traces how androgyny emerges through recurring forms and sar…
Quiet Catastrophes in Frame
This paper examines Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild and Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes as visual texts that engage the ecological and affective contours of Anthropocene cinema. Drawing on Rob Nixon’s concept of ‘slow violence’ and Lauren Berlant’s notion of ‘lateral agency,’ it considers how both films render visible the lived experiences of marginalised human and non-human subjects navigating environmental collapse under capitalist m…
Fashioning the Pride
The Pride parade is a subversive space for representing diverse sexual and social identities in vivid and carnivalesque forms. This article explores the performance of queer bodies in politicised spaces, where representation itself becomes an act of resistance. It considers how bodies articulate political positions through the aesthetics of fashion and clothing, and how stylised performances not only convey the concerns of queer communities but a…
I Am My Teeth
This article closely examines the role played by teeth in processes of subjectivation as portrayed in Valeria Luiselli’s novel The Story of My Teeth. While the transformations undergone by the protagonist’s teeth embody his incomplete subjectivation, the teeth are also repeatedly objectified in the narrative through processes of grafting and auctioning and through the fashioning of dentures. Through the possibilities offered by the notion of “het…
Moving Borders
Solarpunk and Alternative Social Imaginaries
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Solarpunk and Alternative Social Imaginaries
I Am My Teeth
This article closely examines the role played by teeth in processes of subjectivation as portrayed in Valeria Luiselli’s novel The Story of My Teeth. While the transformations undergone by the protagonist’s teeth embody his incomplete subjectivation, the teeth are also repeatedly objectified in the narrative through processes of grafting and auctioning and through the fashioning of dentures. Through the possibilities offered by the notion of “het…
Moving Borders
Chronopolitics of Slow Violence
Decoding Dress
This article proposes androgyny not merely as an aesthetic category but as a critical-analytical framework for interrogating the structural, historical, and political dimensions of gendered fashion in contemporary India. By situating androgynous sartorial practices within precolonial draping traditions, colonial interventions in dress codes, and post-liberalization fashion economies, it traces how androgyny emerges through recurring forms and sar…
Quiet Catastrophes in Frame
This paper examines Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild and Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes as visual texts that engage the ecological and affective contours of Anthropocene cinema. Drawing on Rob Nixon’s concept of ‘slow violence’ and Lauren Berlant’s notion of ‘lateral agency,’ it considers how both films render visible the lived experiences of marginalised human and non-human subjects navigating environmental collapse under capitalist m…
Fashioning the Pride
The Pride parade is a subversive space for representing diverse sexual and social identities in vivid and carnivalesque forms. This article explores the performance of queer bodies in politicised spaces, where representation itself becomes an act of resistance. It considers how bodies articulate political positions through the aesthetics of fashion and clothing, and how stylised performances not only convey the concerns of queer communities but a…
Narrative (3 obras) · Capitalism (2 obras) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (2 obras) · Politics (2 obras) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (2 obras) · Aesthetics (1 obra) · Agency (philosophy (1 obra) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (1 obra) · Androgyny (1 obra) · Art (1 obra)